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Peer reviewedAbraham, Roberta G.; Plakans, Barbara S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
Iowa State University explored the reliability of the Educational Testing Service's Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit (SPEAK) and an in-house tool as a good predictor of acceptable classroom performance by nonnative English-speaking teaching assistants and studied the relationship between the assistants' background characteristics and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Higher Education, Language Tests
Peer reviewedGraham, Janet G. – TESOL Quarterly, 1987
Discusses the relationship between English language proficiency and academic success of English as a second language (ESL) students in universities and colleges where English is the language of instruction. The study points out difficulties associated with determining this relationship and makes suggestions for establishing guidelines to determine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Correlation, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHanania, Edith; Shikhani, May – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Describes a study of the interrelationships among three tests (a standardized English-as-a-second-language test, a cloze test, and a written composition test) which sought to determine whether adding the cloze test to the ESL test would improve the predictability of students' communicative proficiency, as reflected in their writing test…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Proficiency
